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A Lollapalooza of Litigation, Rumors of Death of iPod Classic May Not Be Exaggerated, Rolling Stone Nods, SW Updates & More
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A Lollapalooza of Litigation, Rumors of Death of iPod Classic May Not Be Exaggerated, Rolling Stone Nods, SW Updates & More
Posted 10/12/2007 at 1:58:00pm | by Mac|Life Staff
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i-Sue, uSue, we allSue: A million here, a million there and pretty soon we’re talking real money. Uh, $1.6 billion to be exact. Class action style suits slap Apple & AT&T with charges and claims of wrongdoing in light of an alleged blocking of iPhone mods. Add this to Timothy Smith’s antitrust suit and Dongmei Li’s iPhone price cutting lawsuit and we find ourselves in the unenviable position of being, like, the last people around to NOT have sued Apple for something. Failure is an orphan but success, and apparently lawsuits, has many fathers, mothers, brothers, half-cousins and step-grandparents. We did just buy an iPod classic though, so give us the good word and we're suing…and then there is, of course, this …

 

The rumors of iPod classic demise greatly under-exaggerated?: Can’t keep the players straight without a scorecard. Some say the patient will recover, some say not. We say, if anything bad happens to our recently purchased iPod classic -- we get scared by a small child while holding it, it plays any songs by Britney Spears or it catches fire in our pants pocket -- we’re suing, um…the world. All of this anxiety over consumer electronics….sheesh.

 

Why Wi-Fi?: Quasi-almost-used-to-be-sort-of relevant journal of note Rolling Stone lavishes praise on the iTunes Wi-Fi music store. Which, of course, only works with the iPod touch. We’re SUING!

 

iMac woes no more: Which we guess means no more lawsuits. Perhaps this is something, in and of itself, sue worthy. In any case, the iMac MXM Updater is supposed to cure iMac's Boot Camp woes (mostly trouble in booting into the Windows-oriented partition after installing Boot Camp). If it doesn’t? You got it: SUE.

 

And in closing: Apple opening up the iPhone to third party apps, and lawsuits (we can only hope)? Couuuulllddddd be.

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